There’s something uniquely frustrating about sitting through a movie that doesn’t quite work and realizing it was so close to being great. Sometimes it’s not the story itself that’s the issue, but how it’s told. That’s exactly what fans have been calling out over on social media, highlighting movies that might have been better, or even great, if they’d followed a different character. And yeah, I’ve got one that could have been one of the best horror movies of the modern era, but instead landed as a lukewarm sci-fi romance.
Over on Reddit, fans have been pointing to some of the most obvious examples of bad movies with great plots or of good scenes in otherwise bad movies. People are still hung up on how Godzilla (2014) sidelined Bryan Cranston’s character after setting him up as the emotional core. Others argue Transformers would’ve been way more interesting if it followed Megan Fox’s character instead of Shia LaBeouf’s, which, honestly, I completely agree with. And then there’s Passengers, where a lot of viewers think the entire story should have been flipped. For me, that’s the one that got away. It had all the pieces to be a modern classic, and I’m still a little bitter about what it could have been.
